Articles & Databases

Key periodicals for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, with popular and trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting, and theatre.

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. 

This digital resource is provided for all California students from the California State Library.

The historical run of Essence from 1970 to 2005.

Full-text database covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It includes peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents. See database coverage list.